The gold angel of the town-hall gleamed in the evening light, and the dark, squat tower of the parish church, sole relic of the past stood out grim and obdurate amid the featureless buildings which surrounded it.
If no other relic of an immemorial past is to be seen in these modernised sordid streets, there is at least the living legacy of that extraordinary kinship between workman and work, that instinctive mastery of clay which the past has bestowed upon the present.
"It sounds so much like relic.
Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
She said it was the last relic she should ever have of her child; and that no other memorial of her could ever be so precious, because this one parted latest from the living body before the awful death came.
This June, the Discovery Channel followed the story of the unearthing in Israel of this ancient ossuary, providing viewers with new information about the discovery of this historic relic and raising questions about Jesus' family life.
One notion is that perhaps the singularity was the relic of an earlier, collapsed universe—that we're just one of an eternal cycle of expanding and collapsing universes, like the bladder on an oxygen machine.
The national-level cultural relic and national treasure is housed in central China's Anhui Museum.
Knobs you turn (and, while we are at it, big, chunky buttons you press) are not some atavistic relic, but an ergonomic advance — albeit a nostalgic one.
In Sanxingdui Museum, Schwarzenegger viewed each cultural relic carefully.
A book that smells like a book is a relic of how we used to spend time.
With so much to occupy us these days, boredom should be a relic of a bygone age – an age devoid of the internet, social media, multi-channel TV, 24-hour shopping, multiplex cinemas, game consoles, texting and whatever other myriad possibilities are available these days to entertain us.
To protect this rare cultural relic, the local people reburied it and then unearthed it again after China won the Anti-Japanese War in 1945.
The Basque language, Euskara, is believed to be the only relic pre-Indo-European language that does not belong to any language group that exists today.
Basques 7、 The Basque language, Euskara, is believed to be the only relic pre-Indo-European language that does not belong to any language group that exists today.
The house, which is for sale, is part of a complex of 37 traditional buildings, including several city-and district-level cultural relic preservation sites, that have been transformed into a high-end art and commercial zone.
The trek between Kabul and Jalalabad, a bone-jarring ride down a teetering pass snaking through the rocks, had become a relic now, a relic of two wars.
There are a total of 7309 historical and relic sites in Beijing among which 60 are classified as national cultural heritages and another 234 are Beijing cultural heritages.
He suggested that people protect the wall as a valuable relic while tearing down the "intangible walls" of their minds that prevent communication.
" "A relic of the stone age," declared Coglan, warmly.
